Gold sells for $1.5k an ounce these days and the combined weight of The Avengers — excluding Thor's hammer — is around 2,500 pounds.

The flick literally earned 10x the cost of that in gold! Just in the United States!

This puts Avengers squarely in 3rd place all time in the domestic box office rankings, behind only Avatar — now with its own nightclub — and Titanic, which needed two releases a decade apart to own that much!!

As of now Joss Whedon's superhero ensemble has bank-rolled over $1.4 bil internationally, and it hasn't even opened in Japan yet!

We know RDJ is busy filming Iron Man 3 and ScarJo is busy being the sexiest woman in the entire Milky Way, but we really wish they'd skip ahead to Avengers 2 now!!

A new Bill Cosby accuser's story of how he allegedly sexually assaulted her after drugging her drink is horrifying.

According to Patricia, -- who decided to keep her last name anonymous -- Bill invited her to a dinner party in 1978 after they met at a conference... a dinner party that ended up just being the two of them: